Word: lunching
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...Partners, bought Dunkin' Brands from the French beverage giant Pernod Ricard for $2.4 billion in March 2006. To make that investment pay off, Dunkin' will have to fend off competitors trying to take a bite out of its core breakfast business while it hopes to eat some of their lunch. "The biggest challenge is to be able to achieve growth, given the competitiveness of the market," says D'Aniello. "That's the whole deal...
...know. It's kind of nutty. I got a call that this filmmaker, Wong Kar Wai, wanted to meet with me. So, O.K., I'll have lunch with him, because I thought he wanted music. Then he asked me if I wanted to be in a movie, and I said, "I love film. I'd love to try it, but I don't know if I can act." And he said, "Ah, you'll be fine...
...less vicious than playful, a showboating athlete that does high-bar 360s on a bridge rail and backflips into the river. When it hits land, it lopes like Marmaduke next to its ostensible victims; it treats any human in its mouth more as a chew toy than as lunch. If the movie is remade for the U.S. market, expect kids to beg for those monster toys...
...imaginary political balance sheet, Cheney is the Democrats' most valuable asset. And reversing that situation is getting close to impossible. Cheney recently made his weekly pilgrimage to the Senate, where he had lunch on March 6 with Republicans. He took his usual seat on one side of the stately Mike Mansfield Room and watched the proceedings quietly. Various Senators came by to ask him about his health after a blood-clot scare the day before. Others quietly lent support in the wake of that morning's four-count guilty verdict of Cheney's top aide, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby...
...mean Hizballah has given up southern Lebanon? Probably not. The group itself admitted that it has rearmed since Israel destroyed much of its weapon stockpile last summer. Meanwhile, the Israeli press is full of talk about finishing the job. As one of the Indian officers says after a tasty lunch of basmati rice, papadoms and mango pickle: "This could be the calm before the storm." In which case, the inner peace of yoga will come in handy...